Lighting Up The Mighty Mississippi by Cheryl Wheeler
Key: CC | Capo: 3fr |  Left-Handed 

    



Intro: C  G  F  C  G
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Big yellow moon, dark blue sky
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Lighting up the mighty Mississippi
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I'm headed home, I can't decide
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If my heart is just too full or just too empty
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Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills
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And the highways I've come to know so well
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I always knew I could fall back on you
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Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell
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Still, it's nice to keep moving, down the dotted line
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Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain
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If I keep my eyes open, take a little time
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No two towns will ever look the same
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And sometimes on the AM radio
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I get a little local Polka show
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And folks are friendly everywhere I go
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Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day
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The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away
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And it's not like someone's waiting when I get home anyway
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So, I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey
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But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky
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And lighting up the mighty Mississippi